Fascism can only function with the help of amoral profiteering corporations. Unfortunately there’s never any shortage of those under capitalism.
Fascism can only function with the help of amoral profiteering corporations. Unfortunately there’s never any shortage of those under capitalism.
I think the point is that some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture so they can keep profiting off their polluting activities for now without having to invest in carbon emissions reduction. This is unrealistic and just an excuse not to tackle the difficult task of reducing emissions. We can’t afford to let the problem become that much worse before we attempt to mitigate it by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, if there’s ever a technology that can do that effectively (which right now doesn’t look likely). We need to focus most of our efforts on reducing emissions.
It’s probably not very funny to all the people in the Netherlands who are not right-wing idiots. Sounds like the Netherlands are experiencing something like Florida: when the problems get really urgent and bad, half the population fights hard to prevent action and preserve their delusion that everything’s fine.
Microsoft profits off genocide and intends to keep doing so.
And to those who say “well, the Earth will bounce back”: we’re much closer to the end of Earth’s ability to support life than to the beginning. Earth doesn’t have endless time to evolve new kinds of creatures. We could be doing damage from which Earth’s biodiversity never recovers.
One difficulty with that is that the way we organize economies currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population. When you have far fewer workers than retired people you start having problems. I don’t know what the answer to that is, but it’s another instance of how any plan to seriously address climate change tends to require deep changes to how we run society. The current systems can’t simply be tweaked to make the problem go away.
The AI is supposed to automate everyday, web-based tasks by taking screenshots, interpreting the information, then clicking buttons or entering text.
Like Microsoft’s Recall. What a funny coincidence that all these new AI tools need to keep taking screenshots of what you’re doing on your PC. That could reveal all kinds of things. Thank goodness Google and Microsoft have proven themselves to be utterly trustworthy.
You can’t really get addicted to fedi
Hmm… anxiously eyeing my Lemmy post history…
The rise of Poilievre is very depressing because of what it reveals about the Canadian people.
Sounds pathologically self-centered, and a recipe for a sad life.
Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel
Maybe I’m misreading, but that seems backwards in the title. Companies are fighting to make subscriptions harder to cancel.
I spend a lot of my workday looking at windows that have turned white and “not responding”, or clicking on things and waiting a minute to see whether the click worked, or waiting for the Start menu to allow me to type, or waiting for the indexing service to spare me a little bit of my computer for my own use, etc. Then I come home to Linux and remember how computers can actually be fast and satisfying to use.
If I were buying an e-reader these days I’d look at something like the Boox devices that run Android. You could install the Kindle and Kobo apps and a good third-party reader app (I like ReadEra), and have pretty convenient access to ebooks from any source. They are overpriced though.
Netanyahu does not care that Israel is now known worldwide as the genocidal state.
According to these conservative estimates, today we are beyond 200.000 dead.
From a population of 2 million. Israel has killed 10% of the population and shows no sign of slowing down. When Israel or its allies claim this is about self-defense that is a lie. This is about extermination.
I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while we watched a guy with a wrench and a rag trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing. It wasn’t hugely reassuring.
The author asks many questions, but never the most important one: “Why don’t people like Windows 11?”
They complain about unprofessional communications then fill this article with whining like this:
Weeks elapsed with little to no activity, because they were super busy pretending to be doing something else out in the abyss of phantom world.
And they never seem to consider that maybe their own code wasn’t as great as they thought:
He finally built the coreboot ROM with our code, flashed it, and tried to boot the laptop, which displayed an FSP message. Max said he was surprised it made it that far. Why? We told them our code just needed debugging, but they didn’t want to believe it.
Why does the author expect it not to have problems? I know from experience that you can hand over your best, most thoroughly tested code to someone else and they’ll immediately find a problem you have never seen. How professional are these people if that surprises them? “But it just needs debugging!” is not the response of someone who knows what they’re doing and just needs a second pair of eyes on the code.
In the end this blog post backfires. They paint themselves as an arrogant and problematic client to deal with.
Edit: After reading the links in another comment on this thread (sorry for the instance-specific link, will fix if someone can advise me on a better syntax), and in this reddit thread this is evidently only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Malibal’s behaviour. Definitely a company to avoid.
It’s a term invented by Last.fm that didn’t really catch on more generally because it’s too silly even for the Internet.
Say “Flock forks Flutter” ten times fast.